Welcome to our Spring 2026 issue, featuring poems about Odillon Redon’s painting Pandora (ca. 1914). We were overwhelmed with the creative and impassioned responses we received to this call! Our issue features poems by… Thank you to all who contributed!

Call for Submissions: Summer 2026 will be open-theme, meaning any and all poems about works at the Met will be considered. If you have already submitted open-theme poems in the past few months, we’ve logged them for consideration for this round, so no need to re-submit. Please get your poems in (up to three), with a brief bio, by June 15th. Full submission info can be found here.

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